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<td class="v">4:1</td>
<td>So king Solomon was king over all Israel.</td>
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<td class="v">4:2</td>
<td>And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,</td>
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<td class="v">4:3</td>
<td>Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.</td>
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<td class="v">4:4</td>
<td>And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:</td>
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<td class="v">4:5</td>
<td>And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend:</td>
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<td class="v">4:6</td>
<td>And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.</td>
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<td class="v">4:7</td>
<td>And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.</td>
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<td class="v">4:8</td>
<td>And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:</td>
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<td class="v">4:9</td>
<td>The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:</td>
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<td class="v">4:10</td>
<td>The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:</td>
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<td class="v">4:11</td>
<td>The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:</td>
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<td class="v">4:12</td>
<td>Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:</td>
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<td class="v">4:13</td>
<td>The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:</td>
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<td class="v">4:14</td>
<td>Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:</td>
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<td class="v">4:15</td>
<td>Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:</td>
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<td class="v">4:16</td>
<td>Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:</td>
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<td class="v">4:17</td>
<td>Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:</td>
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<td class="v">4:18</td>
<td>Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:</td>
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<td class="v">4:19</td>
<td>Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land.</td>
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<td class="v">4:20</td>
<td>Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.</td>
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<td class="v">4:21</td>
<td>And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.</td>
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<td class="v">4:22</td>
<td>And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,</td>
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<td class="v">4:23</td>
<td>Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.</td>
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<td class="v">4:24</td>
<td>For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.</td>
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<td class="v">4:25</td>
<td>And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.</td>
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<td class="v">4:26</td>
<td>And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.</td>
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<td class="v">4:27</td>
<td>And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.</td>
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<td class="v">4:28</td>
<td>Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.</td>
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<td class="v">4:29</td>
<td>And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.</td>
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<td class="v">4:30</td>
<td>And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.</td>
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<td class="v">4:31</td>
<td>For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.</td>
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<td class="v">4:32</td>
<td>And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.</td>
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<td class="v">4:33</td>
<td>And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.</td>
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<td class="v">4:34</td>
<td>And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.</td>
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